PSYC 340 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1415: Syntax, Deep Dyslexia, Transcortical Sensory Aphasia
28 Jan 2014
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It can be divided into 2 topics: how we as hearers and speakers go beyond the literal meaning of what we hear to make and draw inferences. Ex: can you pass the salt? not asking if you have the literal ability, it"s just a polite way of making a request. Layering: trying to achieve particular goals when speaking through the multiple layers of meaning in language: how we maintain conversations. This must be through cooperation, with certain structure: central theme: people are always making inferences at all levels on the basis of what they hear. Our utterances interact with context to give them full meaning: we make inferences from what people say, how they say it, and even from what they don"t say. They"re all doing something, even if that"s just stating a fact: three effects that each sentence possesses: Locutionary force of an utterance is its literal meaning.
